Poll: 2010 Obamateurism of the Year Final

posted at 8:05 am on December 31, 2010 by Ed Morrissey

It comes down to these. Thanks to extensive rounds of voting, we have our Final Four of Obamateurisms this year, and they’re all doozies. Will it be Barack Obama’s famous finger-wag at the Supreme Court during the State of the Union speech on national television, in which Obama managed to prove he didn’t understand the case nor the ruling? Making himself into the arbiter of income caps? Misquoting something as basic as the Declaration of Independence — multiple times? Or bailing out on his own press conference, leaving Bill Clinton to handle it, in order to attend a Christmas party?

I don’t envy you this choice. I’d help you make it, but I have to get ready for a New Year’s Eve party, and the First Mate would get angry with me if I left her holding the bag. Tomorrow, on New Year’s Day, I’ll review the poll results and announce the 2010 OOTY!

Got an Obamateurism of the Day? If you see a foul-up by Barack Obama, e-mail it to me at[email protected] with the quote and the link to the Obamateurism. I’ll post the best Obamateurisms on a daily basis, depending on how many I receive. Include a link to your blog, and I’ll give some link love as well. And unlike Slate, I promise to end the feature when Barack Obama leaves office.

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With a normal politician I think it would be safe to do this voting on the last day of the year. With the level of cluelessness achieved by Bambi, however, I don’t think we can rule out his doing something even more amateurish today. I mean, he’s in Hawaii that gives him FIVE EXTRA HOURS to do something stupid in 2010.

Is there some mechanism for keeping the polls open in case he runs into a statue of King Kamehameha and bows down to it today? In the mean time, my interim vote is for #4.

I think #4 epitomizes Obama’s presidency up to this point. He appears to love the celebrity and perks but doesn’t want to do the work. He’ll sit in the back of the bus while Pelosi, Reid or Clinton deal with the details. Obama remains above it all, wink-wink.

What was the argument in 2008 about not selecting Hillary for VP even though it would have been an automatic win in Novemeber regardless of what McCain did? Oh yeah, because he would have to deal with the prescence and the legacy and the baggage of having Slick Willy back inside the White House and controlling his own Administration.

#1 highlights his anti-free market worldview, and his hypocrisy, since I’m sure he’ll never think he’s reached that point himself.
#2 highlights how much of an empty suit he is, portraying himself as intellectual when he doesn’t have a clue.
#3 highlights how captive he is to a segment of his base that rejects the notion that there might be any authority greater than the federal government.
#4 highlights how little he wants to deal with the process of governance, and how little regard he has for the idea that the citizens want their President to lead.

It’s tough to pick, because the Obamateur is an amateur in so many ways.

I understand everybody’s interest in the choice of letting Clinton take over a presser, but I have to lobby for Obama’s clear declaration of socialist ideology as the supreme proof of his lack of qualification to lead anything. When one person believes that they can decide when you’ve “made enough money”, and that person holds the weapon of executive fiat, we’re in very much trouble. The others are cases of stupidity, for certain, but this is a clear and present danger to the liberty of every American. Vote wisely.

If Obama was merely a slacker who doesn’t really grasp the nuances of the Declaration or Supreme Court rulings, I wouldn’t be nearly as worked up over him. It’s the vile Marxism that really gets to me, thus I voted for “at some point you’ve made enough money.”

Unfortunately, most of you have got this wrong…The correct answer is #3 “Obama quotes Declaration, leaves out “endowed by their Creator”

Because it embodies ALL of the progressive movement of which Obama is just a part. If you remove God from The Constitution and America, then the government now has the power to provide “rights.” It gives government ultimate power.

I was pretty sure the Clinton one would win but I think his comment in No. 1 is extremely telling which is why I voted for it. Particularly since he himself has made millions of dollars from his book sales.

“At a certain point, you other people have made enough money and it’s up to my government to forcibly take it from you and spend it as we see fit.”

Combine that with his wife’s griping about the cost of buying fresh fruit for her kids and his history of miserly charitable donations despite his own wealth.

If these Left-wingers were so concerned about the poor or the downtrodden they would put their hands in their own generously lined pockets- but it’s always been about power for them.